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How to Edit Great iPhone Pics With "Must Have"photo Apps

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Nicole 📱

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In this guide I'll give a big list of suggestions of my favorite photo editing apps that will allow you to do cool things with your iPhone photos. I'll give many examples of how I use one or more.

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Instagram: It's my all time favorite app. because it's a great social networking tool for learning more about iPhoneography. But it has filters too. This one edited with the "earlybird" filter.

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My other favorite app of all is Photo Wizard. It's great for basic edits, but powerful enough for complex masking and blending of layers for compositions. I use it for at least half of my edits.

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This photo was edited in Snapseed, another one I use very often. It's great for improving photos, but you can also spot edit and give it that cool hdr look.

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Snapseed is also great for adding some punch to your photos as it allows you to fiddle with the saturation and focus your subject with blurring and vignettes.

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For black and whites, this one gets beautiful results, is easy to use, and saves as hi-res. images. I love it!

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Just one more sample with "Dramatic Black and White."

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ScratchCam: Here's a great app for giving your pics a cool grunge look with wrinkles, scratches, splotches and texture. It's easy and fun to use and there's also a free version. Don't miss this one!

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In reality, I often edit with multiple apps. as shown here. I love all three of these. So much room for creativity!

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This app is simple, and has some beautiful filters, but the best ones are in the extra filter pack. It's great for beginners. Other apps have a similar name, but this one ends with the + symbol.

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In this photo, I edited in Camera+ two times with two different filters. I used PhotoWizard to mask out my subjects and blend the layers together.

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With this one, I added the Contessa filter from Camera+ and then used another cool app called "Rays" that lets you add some great sunbeams/rays to any photo.

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FX Photo Studio: It's great for selective coloring..

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But FX Photo Studio has more than a hundred filters..

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You can get all kinds of different effects with it. With FX Photo Studio, and you can paint effects on or off in just the areas you want.

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Percolator: It turns your photos into abstract iPhone Art with pretty circles and stars. After running this one through Percolator, I used Photo Wizard to made a radial blur around the taxi cab.

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Color Effects lets you easily do selective coloring. Change a photo from color to black and white, or repaint it a new color. This brick wall was originally brown, not blue.

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LoMob: Lots of different styles imitating vintage cameras. This one a black and white 30s camera. It's so cool.

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Camera Bag is a great app for beginners. There's not a whole lot to it, but it is easy to use, and it has some filters that imitate the look of some vintage cameras.

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For a photo collage maker, Fuzel is my favorite. Not only is there a wide range of pre-made layouts to choose from, but some fun photo filters are included. Best of all, slice and make your own layout

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With Fuzel, you can add as many photos as you want, or do like I do: Take one photo and edit various ways to make interesting composition. I also edited this with Photo Wizard first.

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Art Pad allows you to make fun collages with pre-made graphics, backgrounds, textures, and you can even add your own photos too. This app is free, but the paid extras are worth it.

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I don't use Art Rage everyday, but you can make beautiful paintings from your photos.

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This is a great starter app. It has many textures, filters, and it's easy to use.

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Here's part 2 of FilterMania, and also free!

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Dynamic Light is a simple app with a handful of filters. Most of them give your pics an HDR look.

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Tiny Planets: This one is fun and easy, and does just what the name says. Works best with horizon/ skyline shots. (That's downtown San Jose, California.

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This app easily turns your photos into 3D shapes and textures. Here's one example, but you can also make spheres, rectangle prisms, and many more. Another one that is fun and easy.

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BlurFx gives you a lot of control to selectively blur out and vignette certain parts of a photo to add focus.

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This one was edited with "Popsicolor." I don't use it everyday, but it is a fun way to turn your photos into a kind of painting.

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FlowPaper allows you to paint abstract, colorful lines and swirls on a canvas or a photo. I also used PhotoWizard to mask out my subject and add a vignette.

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King Camera: Here's a great free app for both making adjustments + adding great grunge effects or fun filters. I also added a gradient to this pic in PhotoWizard.

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Adobe Ideas allows you to easily add layers to paint on top of your photos with a vector brush. You can also access your photos stored in the Creative Cloud or other popular photo sharing sites.

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Adobe Ideas costs more than most apps ($10) but in my opinion, well worth it because I use it often. In this photo, I painted all around the surfer, then sent it to FXPhoto Studio for another filter.

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With this, I used Adobe Ideas to create negative space around the doorway by painting black all around and making it smaller. Then used PhotoWizard for the blurry rays around her. (I do this often!)

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If you like this guide, be sure to see my other Snapguides too. You can also follow me @magrelacanela on Instagram (and Twitter) where I give details on my editing process for each photo I post. .

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I love those apps

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Shawn Leclair 3 months ago

Great guide, thanks for all the tips on photo apps!

Cathy Chavez 3 months ago

Phonto adds text, and it's free. It also has some nice fonts.

Nicole 📱 (author) 4 months ago

Great photo app preview. Can't wait to play!

Sharon Whittington 4 months ago

Thank you. Some good info.

River Haven 4 months ago

Love this guide. Thank u so much:)

Lisa Cummings Gunn 4 months ago

Awesome pictures! Great imagination! And very useful tips and ideas... Thanks

Carlos Moreno 4 months ago

I just got my iPad. I'm an older non tech person. This is inspirational. Now you can't get the iPad out of my hands.

Janet Kiel 4 months ago

I love photography. I have lots of these apps but I am gonna have to download a few thanks!

Elizabeth 💙🎵🎹 4 months ago

Hi Alison, Are you talking about screencast tutorials or basic video editing? Are you filming yourself? Or yourself with the computer screen or iPhone screen in the background?

Nicole 📱 (author) 4 months ago

Awesome stuff! Do u have a guide for creating, then editing, basic talking head videos on the iPhone 5 or MacBook? I have to start doing video for my job--with no training!

Alison Diana 4 months ago

Hey what was the app you used and font to add the titles of the apps on your photos on this guide? X

Sana X 4 months ago

Hi Richard! Thanks!

Nicole 📱 (author) 4 months ago

Hi Nicole, nice work! Your Merit 2010 alum, Richard

Richard Mellott 4 months ago

Loved the photo of the car with percolator ,will definitely try that one out! Thanks.

Akash Kalagara 4 months ago

Snapseed, PhotoWizard, and ScratchCam

Nicole 📱 (author) 4 months ago

Great guide! Just one question - if you have to choose, which 3 of these are your must-haves? Thanks.

Agnes Berthelot 4 months ago

Love the guide so much

Menna Gamal 4 months ago

Great guide, I have a few of these apps but there were some I had not heard of as well. I never thought, silly me, of using more then one app to play with my photos.

Rebecca Mac Isaac 4 months ago

Great pics btw.

Andreas Hafner 5 months ago

THX

Oz Tamir 5 months ago

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Oz Tamir 5 months ago

Try "Qbro". I always use Qbro before Instagram.

Daniel Lee 6 months ago

Thank you for sharing your creativity and your experience with different apps. Well documented and awesome photos!

Victoria Abel 8 months ago

Thanks. Got a bunch of ideas from your guide

Doug Desenberg 9 months ago

Thanks for all the ideas. I took some great shots in my photography class with these.

Carly Hough 9 months ago

Awesome guide! Great compilation!

Fragrant Wire 9 months ago

Thanks for all the new ideas! I have a ton of photo apps. One of my favorites is Pic Collage.

Janice Wells 9 months ago

Nice guide. I am going to try dramatic B&W. Have you tried LensLight. It does the same thing as Rays.

Luis Perez 9 months ago

Another great app is called photo wonder

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Thanks, Jamie!

Nicole 📱 (author) 9 months ago

Blast it!(5:30 in the morning and no coffee yet ☺) *tell OR show* ...is what I MEANT to say.

Jamie Sleeper 9 months ago

Fantastic guide!!!! So many photography apps I wasn't aware of. Many I had been curious about(how they worked, what they offered...). Sometimes the previews of the apps just don't tell OR tell you enough to sell the idea. The way you've applied some of them to your edits, completely grabbed my attention and has me wanting to try them all! Wonderful photos too!!! Very inspiring guide! Thanks so much for the awesome share! 😃

Jamie Sleeper 9 months ago

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@magrelacanela

Nicole 📱 (author) 9 months ago

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Tabasom Sam 9 months ago

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Love it...

Mediaflo McGee last month

This one is amazing!!! I love black and white photos and this app definitely punches them up.

mary madsen 3 months ago

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Glad you like it, Michele!

Nicole 📱 (author) 9 months ago

This guide has a wide variety of apps I have never used. Thanks for the help.

Michele MacDonald 9 months ago

Yeah, I agree great shot.

Bryan Raiken 4 months ago

Very good pic!👍

Ester . 4 months ago

Great one. Have your students also used these programs???

Mediaflo McGee last month

Thank you!

Nicole 📱 (author) 4 months ago

I meant to add, thanks for the guide and for mentioning some great apps!

Cepstrum Thyme 4 months ago

This app has more (good) filters than any other app and makes masking/blending easy. I've spent hours inside this app.

Cepstrum Thyme 4 months ago

I love this info. Thanks for sharing.

Cheryl Chisholm 4 months ago

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The filter I used from this app is called "Vintage Blue."

Nicole 📱 (author) 4 months ago

What effect is this on the app - there are just so many to choose from, I can't work out which one it is!!

Ugly Betty 4 months ago

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This is another app I want to try out. I love photography and being able to create the perfect picture.

Michele MacDonald 9 months ago

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I am so going to get this. I have downloaded a couple different collage apps but they are very limited in the number of pictures and the sizes of each photo.

Michele MacDonald 9 months ago

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I love flow paper

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Very nice

Vanessa Feghali 6 days ago

Adobe Ideas just added some great new features such as various brushes and the ability to merge, flip, or rotate your layers.

Nicole 📱 (author) 6 months ago

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Belated thanks!

Nicole 📱 (author) 4 months ago

Wow this is amazing

Whit Rom 5 months ago

This was an amazing guide thanks so much

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Really coo thanks

Annette Harris 3 months ago

Glad you liked it, Donna! Thanks!

Nicole 📱 (author) 4 months ago

Great information and ideas! Thank you!!

Donna Kubel 4 months ago

Thank you!

Nicole 📱 (author) 4 months ago

Thank you :)

Michelle Hawking 4 months ago

Amazing, thank you!

Steve White 4 months ago

Thanks for this great guide. I found a couple I did not know about. Just followed you on Instagram (I'm @nkmphotos). I like that you put the apps/techniques you used in your comments!

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